Should I Upload My Art All At Once Or Slowly Daily?

An important part of the uploading process is applying relevant keywords and descriptions so your work will appear in search results. Writing those takes a bit of time, so you'll probably go a little nuts if you try to do them all at once.

I agree with James for his reasoning and personally have never been able to do more than ten a day at the most without feeling the need to gouge my eyes out with a spork.

That said, unlike Etsy or some other sites where people regularly look at the daily new uploads, I think the sooner you get your art up here the better. Keep in mind, new uploads are NOT where buyers generally look to make purchases. They search. They find. They buy.

It would be a shame if someone was searching for subject X the day before you uploaded the very best version of subject X ever produced because you were artificially delaying your uploads. In general it takes time to be found and sell once an image is uploaded but I have and do sell images uploaded the day before now and again.

I'd suggest getting a good FAA portfolio ready with many good images filled with the right keywords, etc. And then start marketing through whatever means you can -- certainly social media. If 25 is a good place to start, then start with 25 images. If 50 or a hundred is better for you, then start there. Upload your best work then help people find them. Too many people think they can dump images here and they will be found and start selling. That would be the exception, not the rule. You have to help potential buyers find you.

Good luck.

upload what you have, the longer the soak time the better you are. however don't advertise them all at once, because it will look like spam. it will often take 3 months or more before my thing is sold. so upload them as you have them.

---Mike Savad

Take your time. If you "dump" them, you might not be taking the time to edit out the bad stuff and put in good descriptions and keywords.

When you get to a certain point, you should advertise your page and that you have art for sale. Perhaps not individual pieces yet. Consider doing some real life press releases. Not sure where you live, but local papers may pick up on this, if nothing else, it gets your name out there. Also post the press release on FAA. If you're in school or have recently graduated, let them know about it, too.

when i first joined here, i uploaded all 1200 things in the duration of a month. i didn't enter groups then, my keywords were tiny (i'm still cleaning them even today). and it was pretty much 10 hours a day sending stuff constantly. when i upload i don't create new stuff. so i just had to get it all up fast.


---Mike Savad

I do my art in blocks: photography, then developing, then treatments and painting, then uploads. Sometimes I have such fun with the creating process that I end up with a rather large backlog to upload. I recently uploaded 30 images. Usually, however, I do anywhere from 1 to 5 at a time as they become ready. I would never purposefully delay uploading.

As Mike said, advertising them all at once can look like spam, so when I upload a bunch at once, I create a slide show with a single link that shows "new work available for your enjoyment." That is far better than sending out notices on each piece. Later, I can send out individual notices, well-spaced in time, to promote pieces I really want seen.

I usually advise people to ask for a critique for quality to make sure you are photographing and editing correctly. Often times scans or photos of paintings sit until sold and then fail quality inspection. A quick look and i see you have cropped very carefully and for the most part looks clean. Just be sure you have not upped the resolution. You have some pretty large files. If the finished file has more pixels then your camera puts out and you have not stitched images then you have up-sized. Once you are sure your reproduction methods are good upload as many as you like, but be sure to complete the descriptions and tags. Also it is a good idea to edit the tag and descriptions a bit, in case you didn't think of everything the first time around.

Thanks to everyone for replying with such helpful advice. I have a question about resolution and that is what size resolution is best for this site? Forgive me if I'm asking FAQ's, I am such a noob lol.

I agree with the others - upload it all, the sooner the better, but spread out the marketing so you're not spamming. As far as resolution, I believe 300 dpi or better is the recommendation, but I could be wrong. All of mine are 300 dpi.